Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.
The Steam Deck is Valve's new handheld / iPhone 13 rumors grow / Virgin Galactic sends Richard Branson to the edge of space
July 16, 2021
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Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Alex Cranz discuss this week in tech news — the new Valve Steam Deck, Netflix potentially getting into gaming, a lot of Apple news, and some billionaires going into space.
Further reading:
- The COVID-19 vaccines weren’t hacked — this task force is one reason why
- Foxconn and TSMC strike deal to buy 10 million COVID vaccines for Taiwan
- Valve’s gaming handheld is called the Steam Deck and it’s shipping in December
- Netflix snags former EA, Oculus exec to lead its video game efforts
- Apple’s latest iOS and macOS betas undo some of Safari’s controversial new design
- iPhone 13 rumors grow more certain ahead of September launch
- Redesigned iPad mini reportedly on track to launch this fall
- Apple just launched an official $99 MagSafe battery pack for the iPhone 12 lineup
- iPhone 12 reverse wireless charging can power up Apple’s new MagSafe battery pack
- Apple is working on Apple Pay Later to help you buy things without paying for them yet
- Apple reportedly wants in on NFL Sunday Ticket
- Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees
- Facebook says FTC chair shouldn’t help decide the future of its antitrust case
- Biden’s executive order puts net neutrality back in the spotlight
- President Joe Biden’s latest executive order is a huge win for right to repair
- Space tourism rivalry gets extremely petty ahead of Branson’s spaceflight
- Virgin Galactic has opened a sweepstakes offering a trip to space
- Virgin Galactic successfully sends Richard Branson to the edge of space
- Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked device lineup may have been entirely spoiled in huge new leak
- The Galaxy Z Fold 3 will support the S Pen Pro, according to FCC filings
- Ikea and Sonos picture frame speaker review: wall of sound
- TVA TemPad review: who needs TikTok when you can control time and space?
- We want to see your internet bill
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